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Orange County education leaders are expected to consider on Monday a set of recommendations to reopen schools in the fall that does not include mandatory use of masks for students or greater social distancing in classrooms amid a rise in coronavirus cases. The recommendations, contained in a white paper, broadly …

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A team of interdisciplinary researchers has discovered a new technique for storing DNA information, in this case “The Wizard of Oz,” translated into Esperanto, with unprecedented precision and efficiency. The technique takes advantage of the information storage capacity of interlocking DNA strands to encode and retrieve …

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health reported 2,593 recently confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and 13 deaths Monday, with a total of 136,129 cases and 3,822 deaths across the county. Customers practice social distancing as they line up to order food at Ghost …

American Airlines said Monday that it had contacted Senator Ted Cruz after a widely shared photograph showed he was not wearing a mask on one of his flights. The photo, posted to Twitter Sunday night by an employee of the Democratic Congress Campaign Committee, shows Mr. Cruz unmasked as he …

Rhetoric and anti-science policy have led many to believe that the coronavirus is not a real threat, or is no longer a real threat. Some who have refused to wear masks, went out at the behest of local and federal governments, or even attended “COVID parties” are now dead from …